Including cultural water requirements in environmental flow assessment: an example from the upper Ganga river, India

The rituals of riparian communities are frequently linked to the flow regimes of their river. These dependencies need to be identified, quantified and communicated to policy makers who manage river flows. This paper describes the first attempt to explicitly evaluate the flows required to maintain th...

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Main Authors:	Lokgariwar, C., Chopra, R., Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Bharati, Luna, O'Keeffe, J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Informa UK Limited 2014
Subjects:	water requirements environmental flows assessment riparian zones communities river basins hydrology hydraulics surveys
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/77498